Masaryk University sets up office for foreign staff

Brno's Masaryk University has established an office in support of its foreign staff within its long-standing effort to promote international research and instruction, Ema Wiesnerova of the Czech university's press department told journalists on Thursday. The office will help foreigners come to Brno, deal with technicalities, search for the right school for their children and with interpreting at authorities. Wiesnerova said this was the first specialised office of this type at Czech universities. The new service aims to help employees who come to Brno for more than three months. Their numbers have been growing over the past years. In 2013 there were 232 of them at MU and last year 281, but that figure does not include Slovaks.